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Democrats haven’t had much luck taking on the gun industry, but they’re raising a new argument to bolster their case for tougher gun laws: Terrorists are looking to get their hands on firearms, and current laws don’t necessarily stop them.

On Monday, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Reps. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and John Conyers (D-Mich.) pointed to a new Government Accountability Office report showing that between 2004 and 2009, there were 963 instances in which a known or suspected terrorist attempted to buy a gun, and 865 of those potential buyers weren’t disqualified in background checks.

Now Lautenberg wants to make it harder for terrorists to get guns, introducing a measure that would empower the attorney general to deny known or suspected terrorists the opportunity to purchase a firearm.

“The special interest gun lobby has so twisted our nation’s laws that the rights of terrorists are placed above the safety of everyday Americans,” Lautenberg said Monday. “The current law simply defies common sense.”

What a blatant LIAR Lautenberg is. Yeah, we really put the "rights" of terrorists above "everyday" Americans! This guy couldn't care LESS about the safety of "everyday" (an elitist term for sure) Americans as he attempts to prevent them from protecting themselves every chance he can get. And what about those 963 "known or suspected terrorists"? I suspect that probably about ONE was an actual terrorist IF that. As for "suspected" terrorists are concerned . . . virtually anyone who didn't vote for Obama has a good chance of eventually appearing on that list anyway . . . it's WORTHLESS !